So like, when someone says "Bushmasters and AR 15 Assault weapons" and you grit your teeth because they are the same thing and that idiot commenting about guns are dangerous doesn't even know how much grain to pack in a good sniper bullet.
Personally, I'm really bored by guns -- so I can imagine someone NOT knowing all these details when they complain about a mass shooting totally destroys any credibility for you but not for me.
I agree with that frustration of total impotence. A lot of blogs are moving to FaceBook login credentials or Google. I've stopped blogging at a few websites just for that reason.
It seems there is a commercial anti-privacy agenda because everyone wants to make MORE MONEY per each head on their website -- rather than live with expenses to benefit from visitors, without trying to get too much out of every hit. You can't get commercial money without PROVEN eyeballs and without mixing ads with your content.
The other thing is that once you have a few execs in marketing with paychecks, they have to do stuff. It's like the food additive people think they can improve bread by removing the last bit of grain with saw dust. Eventually, people will pay more to just get back to the bread before you improved it -- and you've got "New Improved Bread -- 100% Natural."
So after all the improvements to Slashdot, I can see that we will all pay lot's of bucks to find an add-free, un flash encumbered, anonymous website where people can discuss geeky things. Also, it will be Caffeine and GMO free! Genius!
It took a day or two, but now when I google "f%ck beta" all the top results are from slashdot. Yay.
Yeah, we should be proud of that. Now slashdot has already been added to most filters, reducing access to millions of people, because of the potty mouth nerds who couldn't find a better way to articulate their frustration.
You increased the potty mouthed hit count right there. If you just used the "bleep" characters %^&*@# -- well, I guess you guys can't win for losing. The SlashDot has a lot of people who don't like change. Go figure.
annual reviews required 80,000 hours of time from the 2000 managers at Adobe each year, the equivalent of 40 full-time employees. After all that effort, internal surveys revealed that employees felt less inspired and motivated afterwards
It's like seeing Allan Greenspan when he realized Wall Street had greedy people who would totally abuse his "hands off" approach to oversight and regulation.
It's for my mad PhotoShop skilz and the high quality paper we use. Did you check out that Times Roman font -- you don't see leading like that and balance of type weight anywhere else outside The New Yorker.
Really, without the Graphic artists, you'd realize these were all 3D meshes. We have to add pimples, defects, the works.
I'm proudest of that dragon tattoo I had to put on the Pamela Anderson simulation. She's too tasteful and modest to actually get a tattoo, so we had to sex it up a little.
--- Your's truly; the SlashDot art department. And marketing plans to add FaceBook login checks and high end flash adds to all posts for Beta 3 -- Gawd they are geniuses!
Your point doesn't make sense. If they are TESTING quantum states, they are obviously creating what they think are quantum logic gates -- and NO this isn't going to work faster than their desktop computer. It's not like they've got an entire CPU or the ability to recognize the states faster.
I'm guessing that a Quantum computer would be great for finding data sets like "is the answer within this range" -- as all the results could be superimposed, but no state found. So if you were suing one to crack a password, you would say; In this range of 3 billion hashs, is one of these a solution to the question: what is password. You'd get a yes or no. If yes, you cut the array in half and keep cutting until you find it.
And I've been on record for some time saying that not being able to "know a quantum state" is not a law of the Universe but merely a practical matter due to the way we test the state is too powerful and disruptive, it's like testing for cows by firing cannon balls at them -- the cow state is either known to have been in a location, but the cow is no longer in a "cow like state" after it has been hit by a large cannon ball. They've over-mystified the physics of tiny things IMHOP.
ICANN will have every company out there, buying and squatting on.company, and then a few million speculators and more squatters hoping to mind gold by having.spoon, and.gold, and.shovel -- every single word in the dictionary will have to be bought from iCANN.
Then of course Coke will have to register coke.coke, and IBM ibm.ibm -- just because.
There's ZERO use to the world for this confusion, but when has that stopped anything when profits are on the line? ICANN is a useless agency that has one product.
Looking at stats on how a team historically plays seems kind of useless to me to predict their next game. A football team is made of individuals who may or may not have been on the team when those stats are assembled. There's also a group dynamic. So in short; about as effective as historical predictions of stock performance without regard to what the company in question is doing and the factor that all sides are gaming the system.
The fact that a game like Football can produce clear statistics, gives an illusion that there are clear reasons for those stats. While yes, a running back or quarterback has an average yardage -- what they ate for breakfast might determine how well they do in a particular game.
I think expert humans are still going to do a better job over expert computers in this regard.
What will happen is this will LOWER THE COST of high sulfur oil. It also competes with some smaller oil outfits in the Mid West which don't have an oil pipeline. Add to that the "tax free zone" in Texas and it means that only a few rich guys profit, the world uses more high sulfur oil and smaller companies go bankrupt -- net result more pollution, fewer jobs, and less taxes assessed. So as far as lame-ass corporate antics masquerading as something humanity should care about -- not the worst.
But there's ZERO reason we should support this. I also won't be surprised if it gets a subsidy. It also makes the rat bastard Koch family richer.
So unless a study comes out that says it will "suck carbon from the air" -- then I'm going to be against it. We don't need this kind of efficiency.
Yes, well, they weren't the most qualified, per se, they just won the bid because they were the least expensive reporting agency on the bid to "produce study that concludes zero impact from Keystone and Tar Sands."
If the oil companies wanted a study that said Tar Sands whiten teeth, that of course would have cost a lot more and there's no telling that the State Department could be plausibly qualified for that either.
Microsoft was also on the consortium to develop H.264 and then they almost ruined it and coincidentally created their own video standard that was kind of like it. This was also about the time that DivX got started and I'd be curious how many algorithms it "borrowed."
I think it's kind of a risk to let them partner with a group they have a vested interest in destroying, given their track record. Who knows, maybe they've changed, maybe they haven't.
Kind of like the four British soldiers they caught in Iraq -- not sure if they were in Sunni or Shi'a garb and blowing up the other factions mosque. Whichever side they were inciting -- it was clear they were "making more work."
I still don't know if it was idiocy that made them padlock and keep Saddam's weapons depots, send all the soldiers home with weapons and no jobs, and design the government along religious factions and send Heritage Foundation "experts" still wet behind the ears and full of Libertarian economics as consultants to "improve" and utterly break the country. It's either idiocy or smart people using idiots to create a civil war and extort Production Sharing Agreements (let same companies run the oil wells as before Saddam).
Small government arguments don't seem to pay enough attention to all the disparate spook groups running around with no oversight and unlisted agendas. I think they are worst threat because nobody has them on a watch list and they should.
You know how these things work don't you? They interview people and they ask questions. Most of the questions they ask they already know the answer to. If you lie to them that's when they start to really get interested. Thousands of people like this get interviewed and mostly nothing ever comes of it. You may think it's a waste of time and hell, you might be right. The authorities attitude is that if they do it enough eventually the odds will play out in their favor.
Meanwhile they anger 99% and create resentment, and people who lose jobs start considering becoming part of whomever is fighting the power.
The BEST WAY to have security is an equitable distribution of opportunity, education and human rights. It worked great in America until all the "work in the shadows" and play with army toys when nobody is watching types like Rumsfeld got someone to listen to their Dr. Strangelove ramblings. In the US, it's old codger Billionaires and the PNAC that is a major source for this; "must kill all the enemy" attitudes. They were clueless to prevent it, or they caused it -- either way the Security State is as much a creator of bad guys as it is a hindrance, if not more so.
I don't agree. It's only whether the larger company has the ability to identify talent.
The can be lucky -- it isn't always a; "Time Warner buy AOL right near the end of dial up."
If companies keep getting wealthier and more profits, they can just hedge their bets, because money is nothing to them and dear to others. It's more of a problem of pooled capital than it is anything else.
If Deep Mind really has the knowledge and capability to form strong AI, then this is a smart move. Deep Mind could have become the next Google.
However, I find it unacceptable that big mega-corps just go out and buy companies with talent. Just imagine what the world would have looked like when Microsoft had bought Google when it was in its infancy...
I'm sure by now Microsoft would be dealing with teenage rebellion; "No Dad, I'm not going to be a hypocrite like you and force my vendors to bundle my software -- I'm going to data mine my customers and make my money and advertising like a 2 dollar whore. Just like Mom!"
If someone is not uploading a Catnado as we type, then something is broken in our system.
In fact, If someone on SyFy isn't already writing a screenplay -- something is broken.
I'm even betting the man who wrote the screenplay for the epic "Sharknado" is on the case. Don't worry. Don't worry at all. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt27...
It's the 21st Century my good man, it's time you put aside this notion of "trying something different" -- if not employing people local to Detroit caused the problem, in the 21st Century we try again to "not employ people."
I thought if you watched TV you would learn that "beating a dead horse" was our national pastime.
This is like putting up traffic lights before you have more than two cars.
This is all about satellites and debris -- so what about the equivalent of "street sweepers" for the sky? I could imagine that it's easier to target all the working satellites and occasionally just blast the equivalent of a shotgun around them of pellets made from water ice. Destabilize the orbit of all the debris and it will clean up quicker.
Other than a few satellites that might collide -- most of the debris or low sophistication satellites can't move, right? So you are doing traffic control and the best you can do is; "Collision immanent in 3 more orbits". Kind of like our Asteroid protection, or anything to do with serious existential threats like Global Warming.
We'll spend a few trillion more on Ter'rism and Drug War that does nothing but buy flack jackets for people who are inevitably corrupted. We've got the DEA running protection rackets for major drug lords while they bust the competition. We've got contractors selling off all that "just the meta data" which somehow requires a building larger than the Pentagon and they have to invent words larger than Petabyte for storage.
There are no adults looking out for us -- just using that as an excuse. And is crazy that we are going to build a system that will ONLY protect the satellites that can move and has no other purpose than to shift company profits to taxpayer expenses. You think I'll get a discount from AT&T because Uncle Sam saved their cell phone bounce point?
This is the main threat of non-governmental currencies -- this transaction you describe is very much like the "tax and hassle free" inner economies of many multinationals.
IBM used to have a good import export business in Eastern Europe for food items for a while -- because they were offsetting investments and earnings. Basically, any company in many nations can transfer profits with internal distributions of goods (kind of the bit-coin model), then when there is an imbalance, they can overpay for a widget created internally by the source of goods. Or they can reap profits in a tax-free haven by overpaying for some internal accounting, financial instrument, or widget in the location with the lowest taxes.
The threat of virtual currencies is that they can shift OFF the burden that large companies shifted onto the public; paying for stuff. Exchange and Point of Sale and Payroll taxes have always been the "least forbidden" taxes in the US because they are popular with the Robber barons.
I once knew a Billionaire who had a Debit Card out of the Caymans. He never had to pay sales taxes or realize luxury taxes because he never actually bought ANYTHING -- it was a bank transaction that offset the balance of an unmarked account in an offshore bank which was a financial instrument based upon some over-paid widget coming out of Sweden. Nobody actually owned his nice car -- he just drove it.
Now I can think of a few ways to improve bit coins -- such as making a stock component that translates to real value, among other things,.. but I'm amazed that alarm bells from Robber Barons haven't gone off. If they can't sponsor some Pirates to pillage bitcoin -- look for a lot of anonymous "astro turf" complaints from groups like ALEC or Citizen's United to complain it's used to buy kids on the black market.
We can't have average people doing what the multinationals have been doing to us for decades./s
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So like, when someone says "Bushmasters and AR 15 Assault weapons" and you grit your teeth because they are the same thing and that idiot commenting about guns are dangerous doesn't even know how much grain to pack in a good sniper bullet.
Personally, I'm really bored by guns -- so I can imagine someone NOT knowing all these details when they complain about a mass shooting totally destroys any credibility for you but not for me.
I agree with that frustration of total impotence. A lot of blogs are moving to FaceBook login credentials or Google. I've stopped blogging at a few websites just for that reason.
It seems there is a commercial anti-privacy agenda because everyone wants to make MORE MONEY per each head on their website -- rather than live with expenses to benefit from visitors, without trying to get too much out of every hit. You can't get commercial money without PROVEN eyeballs and without mixing ads with your content.
The other thing is that once you have a few execs in marketing with paychecks, they have to do stuff. It's like the food additive people think they can improve bread by removing the last bit of grain with saw dust. Eventually, people will pay more to just get back to the bread before you improved it -- and you've got "New Improved Bread -- 100% Natural."
So after all the improvements to Slashdot, I can see that we will all pay lot's of bucks to find an add-free, un flash encumbered, anonymous website where people can discuss geeky things. Also, it will be Caffeine and GMO free! Genius!
It took a day or two, but now when I google "f%ck beta" all the top results are from slashdot. Yay.
Yeah, we should be proud of that. Now slashdot has already been added to most filters, reducing access to millions of people, because of the potty mouth nerds who couldn't find a better way to articulate their frustration.
You increased the potty mouthed hit count right there. If you just used the "bleep" characters %^&*@# -- well, I guess you guys can't win for losing. The SlashDot has a lot of people who don't like change. Go figure.
Just reading what they discovered;
annual reviews required 80,000 hours of time from the 2000 managers at Adobe each year, the equivalent of 40 full-time employees. After all that effort, internal surveys revealed that employees felt less inspired and motivated afterwards
It's like seeing Allan Greenspan when he realized Wall Street had greedy people who would totally abuse his "hands off" approach to oversight and regulation.
I know, I know.
It's for my mad PhotoShop skilz and the high quality paper we use. Did you check out that Times Roman font -- you don't see leading like that and balance of type weight anywhere else outside The New Yorker.
Really, without the Graphic artists, you'd realize these were all 3D meshes. We have to add pimples, defects, the works.
I'm proudest of that dragon tattoo I had to put on the Pamela Anderson simulation. She's too tasteful and modest to actually get a tattoo, so we had to sex it up a little.
--- Your's truly; the SlashDot art department. And marketing plans to add FaceBook login checks and high end flash adds to all posts for Beta 3 -- Gawd they are geniuses!
It's almost like you are describing the music industry, where the suits think the talent is all ungrateful...
Isn't this the same place that LOST all of George Bush's emails? Conveniently?
So they protect information for their clients, until they don't.
I'm willing to bet that Argentina's bank was up to no good and the records might have been evidence. Just curious.
Your point doesn't make sense. If they are TESTING quantum states, they are obviously creating what they think are quantum logic gates -- and NO this isn't going to work faster than their desktop computer. It's not like they've got an entire CPU or the ability to recognize the states faster.
I'm guessing that a Quantum computer would be great for finding data sets like "is the answer within this range" -- as all the results could be superimposed, but no state found. So if you were suing one to crack a password, you would say; In this range of 3 billion hashs, is one of these a solution to the question: what is password. You'd get a yes or no. If yes, you cut the array in half and keep cutting until you find it.
And I've been on record for some time saying that not being able to "know a quantum state" is not a law of the Universe but merely a practical matter due to the way we test the state is too powerful and disruptive, it's like testing for cows by firing cannon balls at them -- the cow state is either known to have been in a location, but the cow is no longer in a "cow like state" after it has been hit by a large cannon ball. They've over-mystified the physics of tiny things IMHOP.
So you just pointed out WHY we will get .company.
ICANN will have every company out there, buying and squatting on .company, and then a few million speculators and more squatters hoping to mind gold by having .spoon, and .gold, and .shovel -- every single word in the dictionary will have to be bought from iCANN.
Then of course Coke will have to register coke.coke, and IBM ibm.ibm -- just because.
There's ZERO use to the world for this confusion, but when has that stopped anything when profits are on the line? ICANN is a useless agency that has one product.
So with the advantage of planning for automobiles the US has managed to screw up traffic far more than countries that never planned for it at all?
Looking at stats on how a team historically plays seems kind of useless to me to predict their next game. A football team is made of individuals who may or may not have been on the team when those stats are assembled. There's also a group dynamic. So in short; about as effective as historical predictions of stock performance without regard to what the company in question is doing and the factor that all sides are gaming the system.
The fact that a game like Football can produce clear statistics, gives an illusion that there are clear reasons for those stats. While yes, a running back or quarterback has an average yardage -- what they ate for breakfast might determine how well they do in a particular game.
I think expert humans are still going to do a better job over expert computers in this regard.
What will happen is this will LOWER THE COST of high sulfur oil. It also competes with some smaller oil outfits in the Mid West which don't have an oil pipeline.
Add to that the "tax free zone" in Texas and it means that only a few rich guys profit, the world uses more high sulfur oil and smaller companies go bankrupt -- net result more pollution, fewer jobs, and less taxes assessed. So as far as lame-ass corporate antics masquerading as something humanity should care about -- not the worst.
But there's ZERO reason we should support this. I also won't be surprised if it gets a subsidy. It also makes the rat bastard Koch family richer.
So unless a study comes out that says it will "suck carbon from the air" -- then I'm going to be against it. We don't need this kind of efficiency.
Yes, well, they weren't the most qualified, per se, they just won the bid because they were the least expensive reporting agency on the bid to "produce study that concludes zero impact from Keystone and Tar Sands."
If the oil companies wanted a study that said Tar Sands whiten teeth, that of course would have cost a lot more and there's no telling that the State Department could be plausibly qualified for that either.
Microsoft was also on the consortium to develop H.264 and then they almost ruined it and coincidentally created their own video standard that was kind of like it. This was also about the time that DivX got started and I'd be curious how many algorithms it "borrowed."
I think it's kind of a risk to let them partner with a group they have a vested interest in destroying, given their track record. Who knows, maybe they've changed, maybe they haven't.
Kind of like the four British soldiers they caught in Iraq -- not sure if they were in Sunni or Shi'a garb and blowing up the other factions mosque. Whichever side they were inciting -- it was clear they were "making more work."
I still don't know if it was idiocy that made them padlock and keep Saddam's weapons depots, send all the soldiers home with weapons and no jobs, and design the government along religious factions and send Heritage Foundation "experts" still wet behind the ears and full of Libertarian economics as consultants to "improve" and utterly break the country. It's either idiocy or smart people using idiots to create a civil war and extort Production Sharing Agreements (let same companies run the oil wells as before Saddam).
Small government arguments don't seem to pay enough attention to all the disparate spook groups running around with no oversight and unlisted agendas. I think they are worst threat because nobody has them on a watch list and they should.
You know how these things work don't you? They interview people and they ask questions. Most of the questions they ask they already know the answer to. If you lie to them that's when they start to really get interested. Thousands of people like this get interviewed and mostly nothing ever comes of it. You may think it's a waste of time and hell, you might be right. The authorities attitude is that if they do it enough eventually the odds will play out in their favor.
Meanwhile they anger 99% and create resentment, and people who lose jobs start considering becoming part of whomever is fighting the power.
The BEST WAY to have security is an equitable distribution of opportunity, education and human rights. It worked great in America until all the "work in the shadows" and play with army toys when nobody is watching types like Rumsfeld got someone to listen to their Dr. Strangelove ramblings. In the US, it's old codger Billionaires and the PNAC that is a major source for this; "must kill all the enemy" attitudes. They were clueless to prevent it, or they caused it -- either way the Security State is as much a creator of bad guys as it is a hindrance, if not more so.
As result, ... you push the innocents into the hands of bad people if you mistreat them.
And as a result the secret police must get more funding, and less restrictions and oversight. Or the terrists will kill your children.
So it's a Win/Win for state security -- no wonder they create these pointless programs.
What you describe here is that no "guilty person" with an ounce of intelligence would be caught going directly to Syria or be tracked.
So basically, the only person they are going to get are the high anger, low information people who are disgruntled, or the odd tourist.
As usually, absolutely nothing of real intelligence or security is involved. England sounds like their security services are as useless as ours.
I don't agree. It's only whether the larger company has the ability to identify talent.
The can be lucky -- it isn't always a; "Time Warner buy AOL right near the end of dial up."
If companies keep getting wealthier and more profits, they can just hedge their bets, because money is nothing to them and dear to others. It's more of a problem of pooled capital than it is anything else.
If Deep Mind really has the knowledge and capability to form strong AI, then this is a smart move.
Deep Mind could have become the next Google.
However, I find it unacceptable that big mega-corps just go out and buy companies with talent.
Just imagine what the world would have looked like when Microsoft had bought Google when it was in its infancy...
I'm sure by now Microsoft would be dealing with teenage rebellion; "No Dad, I'm not going to be a hypocrite like you and force my vendors to bundle my software -- I'm going to data mine my customers and make my money and advertising like a 2 dollar whore. Just like Mom!"
If someone is not uploading a Catnado as we type, then something is broken in our system.
In fact, If someone on SyFy isn't already writing a screenplay -- something is broken.
I'm even betting the man who wrote the screenplay for the epic "Sharknado" is on the case. Don't worry. Don't worry at all.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt27...
are you obtuse?
This "small" tornado that "baffled no scientists" had cats. YouTube and SlashDot need to inform people.
Have you seen the internet(s) yet?
It's the 21st Century my good man, it's time you put aside this notion of "trying something different" -- if not employing people local to Detroit caused the problem, in the 21st Century we try again to "not employ people."
I thought if you watched TV you would learn that "beating a dead horse" was our national pastime.
This is like putting up traffic lights before you have more than two cars.
This is all about satellites and debris -- so what about the equivalent of "street sweepers" for the sky? I could imagine that it's easier to target all the working satellites and occasionally just blast the equivalent of a shotgun around them of pellets made from water ice. Destabilize the orbit of all the debris and it will clean up quicker.
Other than a few satellites that might collide -- most of the debris or low sophistication satellites can't move, right? So you are doing traffic control and the best you can do is; "Collision immanent in 3 more orbits". Kind of like our Asteroid protection, or anything to do with serious existential threats like Global Warming.
We'll spend a few trillion more on Ter'rism and Drug War that does nothing but buy flack jackets for people who are inevitably corrupted. We've got the DEA running protection rackets for major drug lords while they bust the competition. We've got contractors selling off all that "just the meta data" which somehow requires a building larger than the Pentagon and they have to invent words larger than Petabyte for storage.
There are no adults looking out for us -- just using that as an excuse. And is crazy that we are going to build a system that will ONLY protect the satellites that can move and has no other purpose than to shift company profits to taxpayer expenses. You think I'll get a discount from AT&T because Uncle Sam saved their cell phone bounce point?
This is the main threat of non-governmental currencies -- this transaction you describe is very much like the "tax and hassle free" inner economies of many multinationals.
IBM used to have a good import export business in Eastern Europe for food items for a while -- because they were offsetting investments and earnings. Basically, any company in many nations can transfer profits with internal distributions of goods (kind of the bit-coin model), then when there is an imbalance, they can overpay for a widget created internally by the source of goods. Or they can reap profits in a tax-free haven by overpaying for some internal accounting, financial instrument, or widget in the location with the lowest taxes.
The threat of virtual currencies is that they can shift OFF the burden that large companies shifted onto the public; paying for stuff. Exchange and Point of Sale and Payroll taxes have always been the "least forbidden" taxes in the US because they are popular with the Robber barons.
I once knew a Billionaire who had a Debit Card out of the Caymans. He never had to pay sales taxes or realize luxury taxes because he never actually bought ANYTHING -- it was a bank transaction that offset the balance of an unmarked account in an offshore bank which was a financial instrument based upon some over-paid widget coming out of Sweden. Nobody actually owned his nice car -- he just drove it.
Now I can think of a few ways to improve bit coins -- such as making a stock component that translates to real value, among other things,.. but I'm amazed that alarm bells from Robber Barons haven't gone off. If they can't sponsor some Pirates to pillage bitcoin -- look for a lot of anonymous "astro turf" complaints from groups like ALEC or Citizen's United to complain it's used to buy kids on the black market.
We can't have average people doing what the multinationals have been doing to us for decades. /s